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Aquilegia apuana

Aquilegia apuana is a small perennial columbine from the limestone cliffs of the Apuan Alps in northern Tuscany, Italy. It grows best in cool, damp, partly shaded crevices, so keep its soil moist and its light dim.

Family
Ranunculaceae (Buttercup family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Part shade, Shade
Water
Keep soil consistently moist, especially in its growing season, and avoid letting it dry out.
Soil
Free-draining, gritty mix rich in lime, such as loam with grit or crushed limestone.
Temperature
10–20 °C; tolerates cold winters, protect from prolonged heat above 30 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
NW. & C. Italy
Climate
temperate

About

Aquilegia apuana is a perennial flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae, endemic to central Italy.

Where it grows

Aquilegia apuana is native to the Apuan Alps in northern Tuscany, Italy. Populations in the Orrida di Botri canyon in Tuscany and the Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise National Park in central Italy are also provisionally treated as A. apuana, pending further study as they are morphologically different from the population in the Apuan Alps.

Other Aquilegia plants

Aquilegia alpina · Aquilegia amaliae · Fan Columbine · Aquilegia aradanica · Aquilegia aragonensis · Dark Columbine · Aquilegia atrovinosa · Atwood's Columbine · Aquilegia aurea · Aquilegia ballii · Aquilegia baluchistanica · Barbaricina colombine

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Aquilegia apuana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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